Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-25
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.
IT is whispered that the Prince 8,
Wales likes pork pie for breakfast.

IL is whispered that the Prince Of
Wales likes pork pie for breakfast.
In case France mobilizes her army
in October Germany will mobilize also,
Aspebial cable says that three vessels
Of war have been added to the English
navy during the last week.
The Duke Of Norfolk has developed q
strong dislike to his deformed son since
the death. of the Dutchess.
Enormous sams o fmoney are being
collected throughout Germany for
the purpose of propagating the Protest
ant faith in Italy.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay writes that she
has no intention Of leaving Paris till her
two sons are educated, which will take
at least three years.
General Haga has been appointed to
the HE command of the army in the
Dutch East Indies in place of General
Pteltter, who has resigned. =
Col. R. G. Ingersoll's eldest daughter
is a very beautiful young woman. and
is said to have the purest and best
soprano voice in New York.
General Greedy, now the chief signal
officer, has been awarded by the Paris
Geographical Society a gold medal in
recognition of his services in geoera-
phical science. A..
The boycotting of Mr.. Tener, the
agent of the estates Of Lord Clanricarde,
County Galway, has commenced.
Several tradesmen have refused to up
ply him with goods.
1t is understood that the plan of hold
ing a r igade encampmentfor the Illinois
National Guard has been abandoned for
this year and that IN encampment by
regiments has been substituted.
Emile Barth. a Berlin editor has lust
been sentenced to four weeks imprison-
ment for offending Prince Bismarck by
publishing an article entitled "Rumors
Of War Circulated by a Reptile Press.
The announcement that the author of
''She," "Jess'' and those other fighty
romances has another novel ready for
press will cause generalanxiety. People
can't stand this intellectual delirum
tremens forever.
The Mexican earthquake was clearly
one OF the European variety and I'M
usually destructive, We invite Colonel
Watterson's attention to the fact that
there is no tariff on earthquakes, but
that there ought to be.
The American minister to China,
Colonel DENLY, writes home complain
ing that his salary is insufficient to
maintain his establishment. It looks
as though DENLY would either haye-to
resign or go to boarding.
A number of young ladies in Reading,
Pa, formed an associatian for the pur-
pose of freezing out of society all yonng
men who chewed tobacco. The young
men hrcke it up in one day by starting
an anti-gum chewing club.
The Gar, Czarina and principal
members of the imperial household
will attend the review Of the Don Cos
sacks two weeks hence, and already
troops are stationed along the railroad
to protect the train in which they will
Journey.
There is a printing house still in
prosperous operation in France which
was established in 1884 with girls for
compositors. The work is chiefly on
Greek and Latin classics. Twenty-four
deaf mutes are among the skilled type
settlers.
Gen. Wolseley went up in a captive
balloon in London the other day to a
height of 500 feet. At that distance
from the ground he appeared, to the
eye of the English spectator, almost as
small as he looks in tho estimation of
Americans. -,..
Robert Garrett is always en- regle in
his attire. His morning suit as observ-
ed recently, was a lisht-gray English
made coat. with a pink bud in the but
ton-hole; a cane of English witch-hazel
was carried in a hand encased in q tan
colored glove.
Joseph K. Shultz, q we'll known farm
er of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
has just completed sales of his tobacco
crop, showing a total yield of 1869 per
acre for last year. The census makes
Lancaster the richest agricultural coun-
ty in the Union. a5H Y
There is war in strawberry rates
among the Southern roads, and grow
ers are getting their fruit carried to
market for little or nothing. That is a
species of warfare which the majority
of people a contemplate with pro-
found complacency.
The Duke of Connaughtreceives Co.
600 year as commander-in-cheif at
Bombay, but there are so many perquis-
ties attached to the post that real emolu-
ment may be estimated at f10,00O. The
Duke also receives a parliamentary
allowance of $4,000 ayoa-.
Queen Victoria is decribed as pos.
sessing a short, stout figure, a face
with the long upper lip and cold, blue
eye of the Georges, straight bandeau:
of gray hair, a rather flushed complex
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